{"id":296,"date":"2012-09-23T01:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:42:52","slug":"stephen-newell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/spokenword\/stephen-newell\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Newell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wolf vs. Sheep<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know,<\/p>\n<p>The wolf does something each week keeping him from church on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>While lost sheep attend service knowing the bible but not knowing Jesus<\/p>\n<p>Cunning wolves. Concocting callus calculation constantly while concurrently conniving to castrate and<br \/>\nconsume all slow, scattered &amp; susceptible sheep<\/p>\n<p>Meek<\/p>\n<p>Wander aimlessly, graze leisurely as our lambs grow fat off vegetation \u2026 &amp; PlayStation<\/p>\n<p>Pulling wool so far over our eyes that we are unable to recognize sheep&#8217;s wool from wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing<\/p>\n<p>So black sheep, have you any wool?<br \/>\nYes sir, but I\u2019m keeping all of mine<\/p>\n<p>For the second you fall asleep those wolves camouflaged as sheep will sheer you.<\/p>\n<p>We see the 10 extra teeth in your sheepish grin<br \/>\nWe see the lies in your yellow-green eyes<br \/>\nOur third eye is open allowing us to see through your loopholes, we see through your loopholes, we see through your wolf holes.<\/p>\n<p>Wanting us to join their angry pack of hungry wolves preying on those that pray. Sheering sheep, shanking shanks off of shoulders, shots off of sternums then placing us on the back of trucks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Only difference being, some return packaged ready to eat while others return packaged ready to bury so counting sheep, that\u2019s no longer an option for that number is far too steep and I tend to fall asleep after a certain point.<\/p>\n<p>When Peter cried wolf for the 30th time I still ran&#8230; just in case, just to be safe&#8230;.ty in numbers,<\/p>\n<p>Like sheep in flocks or wolves in packs. Bags packed backpack on route to grandma&#8217;s when a detour was suggested by a fellow with large teeth, ears, and eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Teeth spoke the lies<br \/>\nEars heard what they wanted to hear<br \/>\nThose eyes, scoured surroundings searching for signs of weakness&#8230;. a sign to strike<\/p>\n<p>2012 they&#8217;ve evolved past needing a full moon to turn into a werewolf, wear wolf while sheep work 6 days a week on 5 hours sleep, eating yesterday&#8217;s feed&#8230; not giving a bleat.<\/p>\n<p>Freezing from needing as wolves furnish their dens with warm wool woven from world&#8217;s sheep<br \/>\nmaking hoods.. to cover their faces when they&#8217;re up to no good<br \/>\nmaking hoods&#8230; at 300% profit in countries where English is barely understood<br \/>\nmaking hoods&#8230; Detroit, Jane &amp; Finch, Manilla<br \/>\nSo we don\u2019t care if this raises hackles<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t give a flock if this gets us arrested chained and shackled<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t give a bleat if these meek sheep don\u2019t hear the revolution and subsequently get trampled<br \/>\nUnderstand&#8230; we&#8217;re hip to your game, we see them hiding<\/p>\n<p>So howl all you want<br \/>\nBay at the moon as much as you feel necessary<br \/>\nCall your pig friends, call white fang, call Mowgli<br \/>\nJust know,<\/p>\n<p>The time is right, and the bounty is high<br \/>\nSo lets stop flockin&#8217; around and act like we give a bleat.<\/p>\n<p>So black sheep&#8230; have you any wool?<br \/>\nYes Sir, but I&#8217;m keeping all of mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Prufrock Shadowrunner<br \/>\n\u201cWolf vs. Sheep\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyR_rapxc6k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf vs. Sheep &nbsp; Did you know, The wolf does something each week keeping him from church on Sunday. While lost sheep attend service knowing the bible but not knowing Jesus Cunning wolves. Concocting callus calculation constantly while concurrently conniving to castrate and consume all slow, scattered &amp; susceptible sheep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773,"parent":279,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}